Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (US: Tin House, 2023; UK: the87press, 2025), named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR and Electric Lit and a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, she is currently based in Seattle, where she works for Open Books: A Poem Emporium, co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon, and serves occasionally as visiting faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center and the Tin House Writers' Workshops. Her poems have been published by the New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, the Best American Experimental Poetry anthology, and Literature Wales, among other publications.